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08-12-2006
Translation in World's 10 Best of 2006
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 Washington, USA (W Post): The "Shahnameh", the Persian Book of Kings is the great epic of ancient Persia, opening with the creation of the universe and closing with the Arab Muslim conquest of the worn-out empire in the 7th century. In its pages, the 11th-century poet Abolqasem Ferdowsi chronicles the reigns of a hundred kings, the exploits of dozens of epic heroes and the seemingly never-ending conflict between early Iran and its traditional enemy, the country here called Turan (a good-sized chunk of Central Asia).
by Abolqasem Ferdowsi, translated by Dick Davis
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